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Launched in 2010, MIZZE is a jewelry studio that creates handmade jewelry made for luck. Combining natural materials, traditional weaving techniques and a wide selection of middle eastern charms and other amulets, the Tel Aviv based studio offers a great selection of high quality, casual/trendy jewelry line.

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A Jerusalem based ceramics artists that started his work as a cartoonist and decided to create animated sculptures. A limited edition of one of a kind ceramic sculptures is available here including the bathing women and other wonderful and magical creatures.

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Ester Shahaf
Ester is a graduate of Tel Aviv University in theater and costume design. Drawing her inspiration from her surrounding environment, Ester creates in her home studio in the picturesque town of Binyamina, Israel. She combines Orient, Nouveau, Mediterranean and Modern themes using vivid colors and traditional materials to present the exotic heritage that makes up the land and people around her.

9/26/13 5:29 AM

The Hanukkah is a great holiday for kids and is best celebrated with family and friends. Hanukkah is an eight day holiday that gives praise to the Great Temple in Israel. Thousands of years ago, the Syrians took the Great Temple away from the Jewish people, and a small group of Jewish, untrained farmers threw this force out and reclaimed their Great Temple.

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9/8/13 4:38 AM

<In preparation for this week-long (seven day) holiday, people of the Jewish faith gather together for a celebration that represents internal freedom, peace, joy, and love. Throughout this festival they use “sukkahs”, which are temporary shelters topped with branches and decorated with harvest and autumnal themes, as they are built in order to observe the holiday.

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9/3/13 1:00 AM

The Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, is a special holiday that encourages the practitioner to reflect on his or her previous year and the mistakes that were made so that during the New Year these missteps of the past have turned into valuable lessons that imbue one’s life with wisdom, clarity, peace and joy.

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1/15/13 2:40 AM

The six pointed Star of David, Judaism and Israel's distinctive symbol, has also had a significant usage as an art symbol. Whether it be paintings, sculpture, or in a myriad of jewelry designs, the 'Star' (also called Magen David or Shield of David) is commonly used in various art all over the Jewish world.

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1/14/13 5:13 AM

Candelabrum, the first Menorah referred to in the Bible is the seven-branched candlestick constructed for and used in the portable Temple set up by the Jewish people in the wilderness, after their Exodus from Egypt. The material used for fuel in that Menorah was pure olive oil and the high priest commanded to tend the Menorah on a daily basis, making sure it had an adequate supply of oil.

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1/14/13 5:08 AM

In Jewish tradition, a young girl becomes a Bat Mitzvah automatically at age 12, which is one year earlier that boys. This is because girls often reach puberty earlier than boys; and according to tradition, become obligated to observe all the customs and rituals designated to young women, including preparing themselves for their eventual role as wives and mothers. In Orthodox households, girls do not usually have religious rituals connected with being a Bat Mitzvah. While their male counterparts are inducted into their entry into manhood with religious rituals, including being called up to the Torah, religious girls mostly observe this event with family celebrations.

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1/14/13 4:56 AM

The term Judaica covers diverse areas of the Jewish world and civilization, including Jewish history, culture, holidays, language, scripture, religious teachings, religious books, Jewish jewelry and artifacts, in general everything having to do with the Jewish religion and the Jews.

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1/14/13 4:47 AM

The Bar Mitzvah ceremony is Judaism's second most important ceremony for Jewish males, the first being ritual circumcision on the eighth day of life. While ritual circumcision, or Brit Mila, initiates a male Jewish child into the covenant of his people, the ceremony of Bar Mitzvah initiates a boy into manhood at age 13. Upon reaching this plateau, a young man obtains the rights of Jewish Manhood, including being counted in a Minyan or prayer group requiring at least 10 Jewish males to conduct formal Jewish prayer. It also allows a young man the honor of being called to the Torah, Judaism's most sacred text, and is a major milestone in his Jewish education and preparation towards all the responsibilities of an adult, including marriage and heading a family.

1/14/13 4:40 AM

So begins one of the most significant prayers connected with the Kabbalah. The Ana BeKoach prayer, also chanted by Jews each Friday night, has an unknown author, and is attributed to have been written around the Second Century C.E. The prayer is made up of seven sentences which are supposed to correspond with the seven days of the week. The Kabbalistic meaning is even more pronounced as the prayer itself is actually a form of code for the name of God. Each letter corresponds to its numerical position within the Hebrew alphabet, and if you add up the first letters of each word you have the number 42, which is encoded to be first 42 letters of the Book of Genesis.

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1/14/13 4:33 AM

During morning prayers and holidays, the Kohanim approach the front of the synagogue and bless the congregation.
This is known as the Priestly Blessing, Birkat Kohanim or Nesiat Kapayim.
The prayer or blessing is based on the scriptural verse:
"They shall place My name upon the children of Israel, and I Myself shall bless them."